Miscellaneous Debris – Archive

• Vague rambling posts.
• Personal stuff about my life.
• Fragments.
• Observations about lesbians.
• Stuff in English.

• Long-form articles and essays.
• More focused bullshit.
• Hebrew.
• Linking back to other bloggers so I can join in the big link-fest blagosphere .

• Short impressions of music, movies and books.
• Linking to cool stuff I found online without much commentary.
• Replying to other people’s twitter-burps.

• Longer movie/music/book reviews. Here? Blog? last.fm blogging service is crap. Yet Another Blog on strawjackal.org?
• Creative writing projects – private? public?

I think I like the concepts – tiny, self-contained, nano-movies. Usually badly made but it doesn’t matter – at 5 seconds, you have a one-shot and that’s it.

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Yes, yes. Yet more fragmentation. Will have more Hebrew and longer topics, probably. Will also be less personal. Details at http://blog.strawjackal.org. I’ll crosspost here a bit, to see how it goes.

If anyone has a good idea for a (Hebrew) title for it, I’m open to suggestions.

“The white South, if it responded at all to the atrocities [committed to freed blacks after the Civil War], chose to recall how slavery had afforded black men and women a positive protection from such violence”

– Leon Litwack, "Many Thousands Gone: Black Southerners and the Confederacy”, 1984.

You gotta appreciate the logic of that. The passive-aggressive violence, the self-justification, the shifting of the blame.

The Yiddish Black Hand or the Jewish Black Hand Association was a criminal organization that operated on New York’s Lower East Side during the early 1900s, led by Jacob "Johnny" Levinsky … with Charles "Charley the Cripple" Vitoffsky and Joseph Toplinsky … By the end of 1913 … Levinsky [concentrated] on extortion in the ice cream trade, Vitoffsky focusing on … dealers and manufacturers of seltzer and soda while Toplinsky cornered the produce market …

Seriously. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.